Indoor senior citizen events are superspreader opportunities.

PA State Rep Bridget Kosierowski’s photo gallery photo, it is taken from upper level at the Steamtown Mall in Scranton Pennsylvania during the Lackawanna County Senior Expo 2024, showing people crowded into the main hall of the mall.
PA State Rep Bridget Kosierowski’s photo gallery photo, it is taken from upper level at the Steamtown Mall in Scranton Pennsylvania during the Lackawanna County Senior Expo 2024, showing people crowded into the main hall of the mall.

PA State Rep Bridget Kosierowski’s Lackawanna County Senior Expo 2024 photo gallery showed her interacting maskless with a lot of seniors all crowded into the Steamtown Mall. I’m not sure why people are being reckless like this, but at the minimum, masks should’ve been recommended and provided free, and seniors should be alerted, surely, at a senior-specific event, that there are serious risks with contracting covid, which is likely in a crowded indoor setting like this at a time of increasing covid in the county. And at the very least — where are the vaccine drives at events like this? Vaccine update uptake is nowhere near where it should be even for senior citizens in northeastern Pennsylvania.